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Thursday, May 12, 2011

Criminal Sentence 554: Palate or Palette

Seen on a TV commercial for a lawyer's office:

"Cleft palette"

Is this a new disease that painters get? No, a sad birth defect: cleft palate. Your palate is in your mouth; your painter's palette is in your hand.

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